On Sunday, the Princess of Wales was seen and photographed in public for the first time since mid-July. Kate, her husband and their children traveled to Balmoral on Friday (??) and they were seen heading to church on the Balmoral estate. The biggest headline seems to be about Kate’s new hair. It might be a trick of the light, but her hair looks much lighter than it looked at Wimbledon. In my opinion, Kate loves to “lighten” her dark hair – soon after QEII died, I remember the photos of her much-lighter hair in the weeks afterward. Either she’s been experimenting with caramel-blonde highlights on-and-off for several years, or she just randomly has some much-lighter hairpieces which she cycles in every so often. Well, in any case, William and Kate are still being actively sh-tlisted by the Daily Mail and it’s so f–king funny. The Mail has a new exclusive about Kate and how her hair probably got lighter in the sun… as she sunbathed on a yacht.
The Princess of Wales’s apparent new lighter locks debuted at the Balmoral service yesterday are the result of a summer ‘spent in the sun’, experts have claimed. Kate, 43, revealed her new look in the car on the way to the Sunday service at Crathie Kirk, accompanied by her husband Prince William, and children Princes George, 12, and Louis, seven, as well as Princess Charlotte, 10.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, experts have claimed that, the mother-of-three’s blonder locks may also be the result of spending more time in the sun than usual. In July, the Wales family were reported to have enjoyed a holiday to Kefalonia on their superyacht, sailing around the Greek islands. Boasting average temperatures of 24C to 30C in summer, it’s therefore likely that spending prolonged periods outdoors may have naturally lightened Kate’s hair, giving a ‘dyed’ effect.
Sarah Gadston, a freelance stylist, told the Daily Mail: ‘After a sun-soaked holiday in Greece, Kate returned not only with a refreshed spirit but also with naturally lightened hair. The combination of sea air, sunshine, and saltwater had gently lifted her hair to a softer shade – creating the perfect starting point for her next salon visit.’
Sarah believes that Kate’s naturally lightened hair led her hairdresser to ‘see an opportunity’ to go a few shades blonder – as it required ‘less chemical processing’ to do so.
Sarah added: ‘As Kate embraces the natural changes that come with aging, such as the increasing presence of grey strands, she’s made a thoughtful shift in her hair colour strategy. Rather than covering greys with darker dyes – which often require more frequent maintenance- she’s opted for a lighter, blended tone. This approach not only gives her hair a softer, more natural appearance but also helps camouflage greys in a subtle, low-maintenance way. Thanks to her time in the Greek sun, Kate has found a new, more effortless hair colour that flatters her features, respects the health of her hair, and celebrates the beauty of aging with confidence.’
When I was a kid, I spent so many summers in the sun, and my dark, Indian hair would get all of these lovely auburn streaks. Now that I dye my hair regularly, that obviously doesn’t happen. Kate also dyes her hair regularly (the front part at least). What I’m saying is that this honey-blonde didn’t occur naturally because she was sunbathing on a yacht and lounging around a pool at Anmer Hall (although I’m happy that the Mail is pointing out her activities). It happened because she either paid for that dye or paid for that wig.
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- Royals attending a service at Crathie Kirk Featuring: Catherine Princess of Wales Where: Crathie Kirk, United Kingdom When: 24 Aug 2025 Credit: Paul Campbell/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Royals attending a service at Crathie Kirk Featuring: Catherine Princess of Wales Where: Crathie Kirk, United Kingdom When: 24 Aug 2025 Credit: Paul Campbell/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Royals attending a service at Crathie Kirk Featuring: Catherine Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte Where: Crathie Kirk, United Kingdom When: 24 Aug 2025 Credit: Paul Campbell/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Royals attending a service at Crathie Kirk Featuring: Catherine Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte Where: Crathie Kirk, United Kingdom When: 24 Aug 2025 Credit: Paul Campbell/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Royals attending a service at Crathie Kirk Featuring: Princess Charlotte and Prince George Where: Crathie Kirk, United Kingdom When: 24 Aug 2025 Credit: Paul Campbell/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
“Rather than covering greys with darker dyes – which often require more frequent maintenance- she’s opted for a lighter, blended tone.”
Oh dear. This was in retaliation for pulling the Peroxide Princess headline, right?
Saltwater has a dreadful effect on hair and given her lack of tan, Lazy didn’t sunbathe. Peroxide it is…
I’m laughing bc I just wrote a comment on the other post about dying grey roots and how hair dressers are always pressing you to go blonde bc it is easier. And I agree with Kaiser, once you’ve been dying your roots brown it’s harder to get naturally sun-kissed streaks. You need a good colorist to try and make that happen. All that to say, this is funny. Funny funny funny. She did not get that blonde hair from the sun obviously but the DM is being sure to let us know that she spent a lot of time in the sun this summer….on a super yacht…in Greece. Knives are out.
Well now to be fair it could have happened on a yacht if the yacht has a hair dresser on board to lighten her hair lol.
Be funny if Carole comes out as a blonde – then you know they both had their hair done on the billionaire’s yacht! 😂
🤣🤣 Now this I can believe.
Ha! Fair enough.
As a recovering cancer patient…should she be in the sun that much??
Anyone in the sun should be wearing spf and ideally a hat. I didn’t do that enough when I was younger but I absolutely do now. She could spend time in the shade except for when she’s swimming… But at the end of the day, to start the process of lightening her hair from the sun and then later furthering that with salon help would mean a lotta lotta sun time to cut through dyed brown hair.
@jais – you’ve put your finger on it. Her hair is already dyed. Sun exposure will make the color turn brassy. If she did any swimming, salt/chlorine is bad, too.
Yeah and listen I think people should swim and have fun in the sun if they can do so. I want to be swimming in Greece for real. I love Greece. Love love love it and love the water there. But as soon as I’m outta the water, the hat goes back on. As soon as I’m dried off, I’m back in the shade if possible. I’ll be lounging with an umbrella till it’s time to get back in the water. Which means it would be pretty hard to turn my dyed brown hair blonde. It’s hard to get sun-kissed with dyed hair. It would be hard for anyone who was practicing sun safety even while swimming and having a good time. Now if someone isn’t practicing sun safety and truly spending weeks in the sun…maybe? Idk bc I sure as anything haven’t tried it past the age of 30 jeez.
Whatever has motivated this new Daily Fail’s era of finally criticizing Kate and William, I am ALL here for it. They must be getting frustrated with the lack of work from these two
Is this the DM having a go at Kate for vacationing so much? Because the freelance hair stylist admits that Kate had her hair lightened. It’s so stupid.
When will theystopgaslighting.
As many yachts khate has sunbathed on through the years, she should have platinum blonde hair if that is the case.
I guess she really does know how to work- on her tan.
When I lived in Greece, my hair would get almost platinum streaks over the summer. But that was over the entire summer and living by the sea. I don’t think it can happen in a week while sailing on a super yacht.
She looks older with lighter hair. Maybe she is competing with apples and oats Camilla.
That is exactly what I was thinking.
So now the Mail is just batting Kate about like a cat menacing a bird. There’s no amount of sunbathing that could get her hair that light and keep her eyebrows that dark in the time between her Wimbledon appearance and now -especially if KP insist she had cancer treatments. As a women meant to still be ‘struggling, post cancer’ she is meant to avoid full sun for the sake of skin sensitivity.
The BM seem to know the deal, whatever it is… They called her peroxide blonde and KP was too dumb to realize that was the better framing if she was actually in recovery.
Watch out, Kate. Cats play with their prey before the kill shot.
These articles are hilarious, and I’m here for it. What is this nonsense, though? How does a little sun on your hair become an “opportunity” to go much lighter with “less chemical processing”? Peroxide is peroxide is peroxide. And why should it matter that blond hair saves time in the colorist’s chair, when Kate has all the free time in the world for self-care, and she’s never going to leave the house with salt and pepper/dark roots showing under the blond?
This feels like the Mail getting in yet another dig about the megayacht, while pretending to atone for the earlier “Peroxide Princess” headline.
I see this as damage control from the Mail, to make up for the Peroxide Princess banner which they hastily removed. Experts (Ma Midds?) claiming that this woman who has been colouring her hair for decades is suddenly becoming this shade of bright blonde from the sun? Wonder what actual cancer sufferers think of this one who has been “battling cancer” according to the tabloids spending so much time in the sun (on a yacht and by the pool, no less) while “trying to recover and find herself and cope, etc.”?
I think the result of KKKate’s newly blond hair is either a sad blonde wig, blonde wiglet highlights or sitting out in the sun using Sun In.
Lazy bum.
I went for lunch one day with one of my mom’s old friends. She had always had long, luscious dark hair.
And i was shocked when this well to do older lady showed up with a blonde pixie cut.
I complimented her, and she whispered- the blond makes it easier to cover the grey.
That’s what i see here. A woman in her 40s who wants an easier time covering the grey.
Grey roots on dark hair is super noticeable.
She was very gray over 10 years ago, so she is likely completely gray now.
Kate has had visible grey roots since her mid 30s. In fact she skipped a St Patrick’s Day appearance to get her roots done because they were visible the week before. She is likely mostly grey at this point.
Dark hair works with her colouring, tanned or not. If anything she should have gone auburn not blonde. This woman has access to top hairstylists who understand colour. But her taste remains poor.
At the same time, dark roots on a blond dye job–if Kate still has any dark hair–is a trashy look, so I can’t imagine Kate’s goal here is simply to go another week between coloring. Especially as Kate seems to have all the time in the world for self-care. Carole has worked out how to dye her hair brunette without going blonde, so you’d think she’d pass a few tips along to Kate.
So they’re all at Balmoral. Do you think they sit around and compare yachts? Are Kate and Camilla saying oh how was your yacht trip? Ours was fantastic. Too bad they got photos of you. Too bad your trip was leaked….or do they just not bring it up and talk about the weather.
I don’t know if it’s true because I haven’t checked but I read that they didn’t even go to the same church as Charles..so, I doubt they saw each other at all…please enlighten me if I didn’t understand well..
Oh actually I have no idea. Lol, I just assumed that they had all gone to the same church together.
The Sun article spells out that they went to different churches at different times
My my…..what a close loving family.
I feel like that may be the only time we’ve seen the Wales family go to church without either Kate’s parents (maybe they were there lol) or the monarch – when they would go in January with QEII.
Orrly? I didn’t read the Sun article so I wasn’t aware. Good chance it’ll get excerpted here tomorrow. Apparently the Wales felt they really needed that church walk. The kids are probably bewildered. As in, why are we going to church? It’s not Christmas. It’s not Easter. Sorry kids. It’s our penance for getting a new house and going on a yacht vacay so buckle up…oh wait never mind on the buckling up part.
Wait, so was this car ride purely staged for the paps, if in fact they went to different churches at different times?
What a relatable family!
Well, it’s a horrid shade on her. Super brassy.
“As Kate embraces the natural changes that come with aging …” Sure, and that’s why she’s been getting botox, face-fillers and hair extensions for years, right? She doesn’t need a dye-job, she needs a good cut. Gawd I hate the way the RRs make her out to be some sort of saint.
I love that quote. In other words, “Kate, you’re getting old.”
Her hair looks bad in these pictures. Seems like Kate tries to look unattractive & unwell when she (rarely) is seen in public, perhaps to further the idea that she is too sick to show up for work.
Mentioning the yacht trip AND discussing grey hair/aging oh man I’m laughing so hard at this. For so long the press have photoshopped her into oblivion in an attempt to keep her as the 20 something young princess bride.
Credit where credit is due. The amount of coverage Kate’s hair is receiving provides the perfect distraction from their impending move. She only needs to be blonde for another 24 hours, at which time another news cycle will begin with headlines praising the return of her natural brunette tresses. lOl
It doesn’t look natural and it doesn’t suit her complexion.
That was my first thought when I first saw that photo.
“This approach not only gives her hair a softer, more natural appearance …”
LOL. There is nothing natural about Kate’s hair.
There is nothing soft and natural about our Cath.
Sitting in the sun can age the skin prematurely. Without protection. This article makes no sense.
Hmmm also strange that someone recovering from cancer would bake in the sun….
She has never embraced aging gracefully. Also that shade of blonde makes her look older and harsher. But hey, at least no one is talking about their new emotional support mansion.
My arse that that hair has been ‘naturally’ lightened. For a start that wig is just a block of colour, whereas naturally lightened hair has various shades from naturally dark through to a shade or 2 lighter, it doesn’t suddenly become 4 shades lighter.
So, to be clear, because I have seen a lot of comments like this – the article isn’t saying that color is 100% from the sun. Just that the sun would have started the process, I guess, and made it easier for her stylist to take it a few shades lighter.
Which is still silly. There’s no way her dyed brown hair got that light in the sun and started any kind of process, lol. Unless she was truly in the sun 24/7 for weeks and weeks…which maybe she was? Mostly they just want to remind us that she’s been in the sun on a yacht. And that she has alotta grey hairs.
@Jais, yup. I think this article is just meant to remind everyone of the superyacht vacation. Kate’s new hair color gave them a clear opening.
Oh man……W&K have really really ticked off the DM. How many times can they mention their vacation on a superyacht off the coast of Greece in one article? And then talk about her gray hair and how dyeing it will be easier because it was naturally lightened by the sun and saltwater in Greece? I don’t think they’ve ever really before acknowledged that Kate dyes her hair, even though she’s been photographed having it dyed in a salon.
This article seems swanning and sycophantic with the comments about how her spirits are lifted etc but make no mistake, this is complete shade.
The DM is PISSED at the waleses.
They are SO MAD. What’s it gonna take for the DM to get off their backs bc that will be interesting to see. Please just don’t let it have anything to do with the Sussexes this time around.
I can’t help it, but I’m loving it so much. It’s about time the BM STFU about the Sussexes and started giving this treatment to these two taxpayer-funded losers.
Kate is going to need to bring out another disco ball dress soon.
You know for a woman who supposedly has or had cancer or cancer cells or whatever, she sure spends a lot of time in the SUN. I think as Kaiser mentioned that Kate looks exhausted, considering she been in the wind for months . I bet it’s because the daily mail keeps the heat on her and willy about this forever home . Kate wanted to move and have the media who do all their bidding , put a nice bow on it for the public. But the mail obviously didn’t go along with that memo. So now Kate and willy are under fire and she is mad and stressed about it .Kate is hoping that Tuesday comes real quick so that the mail will start attacking Meghan show and poor sausage Kate can get a break from the media finally reporting the truth about her and her lazy greedy husband. I would pray that for once the British media could leave Meghan alone and keep the Kate and willy truth hour going. But I am not that naive. The British media racism won’t let them leave a black woman alone no matter how much information and money they could make off all they have on Katie and willy .
If she’s spent the summer in the sun, why is her face looking so pasty? That hair colour doesn’t suit her skin tone either. Perhaps this is her new look in time for Trump’s state visit?
The next time we see her it will have grown out.
This is not about the sun-kissed locks (😆😂🤣) but something else of note in that story. For those here who don’t think Charlotte will be the target of Windsor sexism as she grows to adulthood, I would like to point out that she’s already been demoted to third place by the DM behind her younger brother.
Oh my! Even the DM has their knives out for Kate. There was absolutely no need to remind their readers that Kate’s hair “might” be a result of or inspired by her time vacationing on a superyacht in Greece, haha. That is just there out of spite and I love it for them!
Personally, this shade reminds me vividly of my friends and I putting Sun-in on our hair in the mid-90’s thinking it would make us look like cool California surfer girls. What actually happened was just a brassy, damaged mess, of course.
My 9th grade school photo is me with yellow hair & about 4″ of dark roots. Thanks, Sun-In!!🤣
Or lemon juice, after reading about it in Seventeen or YM magazine, lol.
Hair color is a distraction. I notice that her eyebrows are more raised and her lower cheeks are tense and no longer relaxed like before.
“Sarah added: ‘As Kate embraces the natural changes that come with aging, such as the increasing presence of grey strands,“
Bahahahahahaha!
They are getting all the digs in that they can and I am loving it. Let’s remind everyone she’s getting older/going grey and make sure we mention the superyacht holiday again in case all the poors sitting at home worrying about paying bills had forgotten.
How can they possibly say she embraces the natural changes that come with aging in the same sentence as mentioning covering up her grey hairs???? It makes zero sense!! And her forehead doesn’t move! Oh, and she’s suddenly got a top lip. ‘Embraces the natural changes that come with aging’ my arse. 🙄
I don’t even care about Kate dying her hair or getting work done. Lots of people cover their roots and decide to go lighter as they age, nbd. I’d be getting work done too if I was in the public eye, although hopefully it would be good work lol. It’s more the fact that they deny it every time. No extensions, no botox, no don’t mention peroxide with her name. Like get over yourselves, omg. Meghan’s out there shouting out her colorist.
I think the bad bleach job is a distraction so we dont look to closely at whatever she’s recently done to her face.
That hat is awful. It reminds me of the pork pie hats they often wear in the Hilary Mantell Cromwell TV series. The hair looks brassy and dry, and her makeup does her no favours at all. She looks tired and old.
Yeah, the hat combined with the heavy makeup and dark outfit are a bit much for August.
Kate, like Snow White, doesn’t have the coloring for blonde hair.
Not a good look for her gray hair or no.
What a terrible color on her.
They are trying to say she’s so lazy that her hair color changed while doing nothing.